chapter 27
27 – Country Trip (1)
The reunion with Han Yuna’s grandmother was thrilling from the start.
Granddaughter son-in-law, I never thought I would hear such a thing already at the age of 19. It is even more shocking that the opponent is Han Yuna.
It wasn’t just me, but the other side of her, as well as the other side, her mental blow was not too bad, Hanyu I wrote evil to her grandmother all the way to her house. Why is someone like me her husband? Even so, there was no sign of communication.
Her grandmother’s house, which arrived with such a small disturbance, was very cozy. Although the structure is reminiscent of a typical country house, the yard is quite large and the building is neat and not very shabby.
Has the construction been redone recently? It feels a bit cleaner than my grandmother’s house, which vaguely remains in my memory.
“Kong! Kung!”
As soon as we entered the house, the person who greeted us was none other than a white Jindo dog. The guy, who was calmly basking in the scorching sun with his leash hanging on it, started barking ferociously, raising his tail at the appearance of a stranger.
“You bastard, I have a special guest, but I can’t wait to welcome you.”
“Ki-ing….”
However, she was quickly subdued by her grandmother’s bruises, and it was funny to see her enter my house as she quickly turned into a docile puppy that didn’t suit her large size. If you get to know her, she might be a gentle person.
“Hayang-ah, how are you?”
“Kreung…. Kong! Kung!”
“Look at how fat Hayang is, unnie. Are you completely done with the pig?”
Sister Han approached such a guy and rubbed her back and stomach to show her friendliness. Then, a guy who lays down on his bed and acts cute with his belly facing the sky. Are you a male?
“Let’s play with Hayang later and say hello to her grandmother first.”
“Yes, I will go now.”
“Hayang-ah, see you later!”
Sister Han, who got up without saying anything at the uncle’s words, quickly took off her shoes and climbed onto the floor.
Anyway, it feels much more sophisticated than what I saw from the outside. Excluding the floor, the walls, furniture, and lighting are just reminiscent of the interior of a house in the city. Even the TV is a wall-mounted TV, oh.
“I’m sorry I haven’t seen you often, mother.”
Following her grandmother’s guidance, we moved to the living room, put down our luggage, and greeted each other again. It started with an uncle.
Her grandmother patted her on the back and shook her head. There wasn’t even a hint of regret on her face.
“It’s enough to come every holiday, what more do you want? The good-looking guy next door doesn’t have any children who come to visit even on holidays.”
“Even so. Oh, by the way, I brought a few because I didn’t come empty-handed. Share it with your neighbors.”
“I came to see my mother, but it was enough to come empty-handed. . Ugh, I can’t live. I can’t live.”
It seems that he liked the present the uncle gave him. Among them, there was also a fruit set I bought, but the man who picked it up added a handwritten explanation.
“Oh, and this fruit was bought by Siyoon.”
“Si-yoon, you mean our granddaughter-in-law?”
“Yes, you are.”
The title of granddaughter son-in-law is still unfamiliar to me, so when I met her grandmother’s eyes, I laughed awkwardly.
Actually, I had no intention of telling the truth that I bought fruit, but she decided to think it was the will of the uncle who did not want my grandmother to know my sincerity.
“Aww, when I was young, I used to play around with this old lady, and I bought her presents when she grew up. Thank you, my granddaughter-in-law.”
“Ah, what? I just want to thank you for remembering me.”
Her grandmother didn’t seem to want me to treat her in a difficult way, so I smiled on her face when I spoke in the most friendly way possible, like her own grandson.
“You haven’t eaten lunch yet, have you? I’ll serve it quickly, so eat and play.”
“Wow! Granny, I’m soybean paste stew!”
“Me too, me too! I really wanted to eat grandma’s soybean paste stew!”
With the help of the uncle and aunt, her grandmother got up from her seat after organizing the presents, and her two hands soared into the sky, as if waiting for the words she handed over to her.
Oh, soybean paste stew is good. In particular, the soybean paste from the countryside boiled with seasonal vegetables is the real soup. I’ve had it a few times in the past too, and since then I’ve had soybean paste stew at a decent meat restaurant, so I can’t get enough of it.
Well, I’m going to do a proper mouth-to-mouth lecture today.
“Does my granddaughter-in-law want anything to eat?”
“I eat everything well. Grandma, please do as you please.”
Since she plans to empty two bowls of rice anyway, even if there is only one soybean paste stew, she smiled and replied to the grandmother who asked if there was any request.
“Eating well is good. My granddaughter, if you marry your son-in-law later, you won’t have to worry about side dishes.”
“Ha, grandma! Because it’s not like that… !”
But thanks to her grandmother who took it as her breaking ball, she had to deal with Hanyuna’s high voice and her angry eyes again.
I…. Grandma, thank you for loving me, but I don’t know if I can’t digest food like this.
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If I were to rate the lunch her grandmother prepared for her, it would be 120 out of 100. Probably the best soybean paste stew I’ve ever eaten in my life. Thanks to that, as expected, two bowls of rice were easily emptied.
“f*ck it.”
“Ugh, dirty.”
“Sorry.”
She was sitting peacefully on the floor, and she heard her bruise from Hanyuna, who happened to be passing by her burp that flowed out of her own accord. I wonder if it can’t be helped because it’s her physiological phenomenon, but it’s true that it’s ugly, so I apologized first.
Anyway, it’s really cool. At most she is sitting on the floor and the wind blows gently. In addition, the ship is called, so it is a situation optimized for taking a nap.
If this were my house, I would have stretched out and closed my eyes first without worrying. You can’t show such ugly looks in someone else’s house, so let’s be patient.
“Come on, go ahead.”
I was looking with envy at her white-yi, who had fallen asleep in the yard, when suddenly a glass was pushed out.
Judging by the ocher-colored contents inside, it appears to be a common coffee mix. But it wasn’t hot, it was cold, and when I looked closely, there were chunks of ice floating around.
“Oh, what Ah?”
“My grandmother wants to drink. While I was making it, I made it without Han Yujin’s.”
“Really? Thank you, I will drink well.”
I had an Americano at the rest area earlier, but it didn’t matter if it was two or so, so I decided to drink it gratefully.
As the sweet Ah passes through my throat, I feel the drowsiness that I had been feeling just a moment ago subside. If I predicted this and gave it to you, I feel like I want to give Han Yuna a storm of praise.
“Did I add too much water?”
“Is it just right? I think I can become a barista later.”
I spat out my sincere admiration at the very right amount of mixing, assuming that the ice melted before adding water. Laughter escaped Han Yuna’s mouth when she heard that.
“Foot, get rid of idols?”
“You can be both an idol and a barista. They say that concurrent positions are the trend these days.”
“What did you say?”
Han Yu-na patted my arm and sat next to me. As the two of them watched Hayang sleeping in the yard without saying anything, I felt strangely at ease. Is this a taste of rural life?
Hurrup.
Enjoying the freshness, I poured all the remaining Ah and ice into my mouth. As she was chewing on her moderately small pieces of ice with a squeaking sound, Han Yuna, who was holding her leg next to her, spoke with a cautious tone.
“I’m sorry earlier, my grandmother was particularly trembling….”
“What is there to be sorry about? It’s a hundred times better than being stabbed with ugly fur.”
“I wouldn’t have been embarrassed though.”
“Well, although I was embarrassed, I didn’t feel bad. On the contrary, it was nice that they treated me like my own grandson.”
How many people will welcome her son from another house so warmly, whom he has seen in almost 10 years, and who is not even his own family or bloodline.
Even though this place is not my hometown, I was grateful and happy for her grandmother’s hospitality to the extent that I felt that I had returned to my hometown. Of course, that “Granddaughter son-in-law” Sounded mind-boggling, but it was her grandmother’s own joke, so if you accepted it, you could laugh it off.
Come to think of it, I suddenly wonder why her grandmother treated me as her granddaughter’s son-in-law. Since she has little memory of her childhood playing here, she is all the more questionable.
Did she ever do anything to impress her grandmother when she was little.
“Hey, Han Yuna. Do you know?”
“You know what?”
“That’s why her grandmother calls me granddaughter son-in-law.”
“Well, isn’t that just a joke?”
Hanyu I also tilted my head and seemed not to care about her, as if I couldn’t recall her childhood memories well.
Well, I don’t know. She was educated that way by her mother, so her personality was bright from a young age, but I don’t think she had anything else that made her grandmother look good.
Shall I sneak a peek at her grandmother later? I guess you’ll tell me somehow.
“Sister, brother! Her grandmother has been playing by the stream for a long time!”
Giving up on recalling her memories of her childhood and enjoying the wind blowing, Yujin Han burst out of her room and ran to the floor with an excited expression like her child.
By the stream, you mean the place next to the road earlier? Come to think of it, she seems to have played there when she was little.
“What do you want to do? Are you going?”
“I’m here anyway, so there’s nothing I need to see. Let her play cool.”
“Okay, then I’ll change my clothes and come out.”
Hanyu jumped up from her seat. I took the empty glass I had put on the floor and headed for her bedroom. It seems that she intends to change into comfortable clothes and come.
Okay, let’s play with Han Yuna in the water today. I hope the current isn’t too rushy.